The genuine history of the Britons asserted against Mr. Macpherson ...

THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 281
'among the natives. In p. 38 we are alTured,
that Alba or Albin is equally their Scotch de-
nomination. And in p. 146— 147 we are re-
affured, that there is " no other name but Alba**
in ufe for them among the Highlanders. So
inattentive is Mr. Macpherfon to his own pre*
ceding affertions, and fo forgetful even of the
general and vernacular appellations of his own
country !—Caeldoch alfo I have proved before
to be neither Cael-doch, as Mr. Macpherfon
ilates it, nor the fame with Caledonia. I have
fliewn it to be Caeld-och, and the fame with
Gaelt-ach in the Irifh, and Galatica and Cel-
tica in Latin. But Caledon I have (hewn to be
very different, and equivalent only to the Celta-
rum of the Romans and the TocTKuJcAjy of the Grascians.
And Gael, fo repeatedly alledged by Mr.
Macpherfon for two contradictory purpofes, to
prove the defcent of the Irifh from the Caledo-
nians, and to difprove the Irifli defcent of the
Scots, has been repeatedly fliewn to be the common
appellation of ail the Britons.
But I am tired with refuting the fame argu-
ments over and over again ; arguments that,
like the Irilh in the Milefian fables, ftill rife
after they have received their death's wound,
and challenge their flayers to a fecond combat.
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